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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We all agree that my father's aggressive medical treatment that prolonged his life a year was a mistake.  We shouldn't have done it.[/quote]
Hopefully it was your father who chose it. You don’t know how you would feel if you had not pursued it. My mom wanted lots of intervention, and it prolonged her life but her quality of life was not good, and she had a lot of pain. A lot of people would not think it was worth it but it’s what she wanted. Nowadays it seems like the pendulum has swung too far the other way and you are deemed almost selfish if you decide the way you want to fight is by using the medical intervention that is available. I wish everyone the option to choose for themselves how they want to spend the end of their time on earth.[/quote]
I wish everyone had that option too.  But if you open the the New York Times today, you can read about a 40 year old mom who isn’t getting basic health checkups and medication for very treatable conditions because her family is struggling to pay off an $8000 medical debt for a 3 day hospital stay her infant had for febrile seizures.  She had insurance but a high deductible.

My point is that in an ideal world the elderly could have the best medical care possible.  But when we as a society aren’t providing universal health care to basically healthy people, it’s ignorant not to talk about the trade offs.  [/quote]

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